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Originally Posted by cb4
What are accusative pronouns?
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The ones you used: me/te/lo/la/nos/os/los/las.
Remember: accusative pronouns are equal to dative
pronouns, with the exception of lo/la/los/las, which are replaced by "le/les" for the dative case.
Accusatives [for DO, direct objects]:
(Yo)
te amo = I love you
(Él)
lo mató = He kills him
*Extra*: (Vosotros) sois idiotas = You all are idiot
[vosotros form is only used in Spain]
Datives [for ID, indirect objects]:
(Yo)
le [OI] doy
un regalo [OD] (a ella) = I give
a gift [DO]
to her [IO]
(Nosotros)
les lavamos
la cara (a ellos) = We wash
their faces.
Note: "We wash their faces" means, literally: (nosotros) lavamos sus caras; but, again, in Spanish we don't say it in this way; it's not incorrect, though...
The order is the same, but in Spanish we usually reduplicate the OI pronoun (dative). For example, the "le" allows to omit "a ella" (to her) and "les", to omit "a ellos" (to them).
In other words: le =
to him,
to her,
to it; les =
to them
Better now?